Using Multiple Antennas At A Station Patents (Class 370/334)
  • Patent number: 11937097
    Abstract: A first wireless device may be configured to achieve diversity gain via beam hopping. In some aspects, the wireless device may configure a beam hopping mode for communications with a second wireless device, the beam hopping mode scheduling the first wireless device to switch between a plurality of candidate beam pairs over a plurality of symbols in accordance with a beam switching pattern, and beamform, during the communication with the second wireless device, a beam of each of the plurality of candidate beams in accordance with the beaming switching pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11855785
    Abstract: A technique for performing a multi-layer transmission from a transmitting station to a receiving station on a radio frequency is described. The multi-layer transmission comprises multiple layers having different robustnesses (704, 706) on the radio frequency. As to a method aspect of the technique, first data of a first hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, process is transmitted on a first layer of the multi-layer transmission simultaneously with second data of a second HARQ process on a second layer of the multi-layer transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Leif Wilhelmsson, Rocco Di Taranto, Miguel Lopez, Jung-Fu Cheng
  • Patent number: 11843481
    Abstract: This application discloses a channel estimation method and apparatus. When time-domain channel estimation is performed on a first slot, the first slot and at least one second slot are first determined. The first slot and each second slot form continuous slots. Then, a first signal corresponding to the first slot and a second signal corresponding to each second slot are obtained, and a time-domain channel estimate for the first slot is determined based on the first signal and each second signal. In embodiments of this application, when a time-domain channel estimate for a specific slot is determined, time-domain channel estimation is performed by using time-domain correlation of channels in combination with signals of a plurality of slots, so as to obtain a more accurate channel estimation result, thereby improving baseband demodulation performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Zhang, Weihua Wang, Chunhui Le
  • Patent number: 11818606
    Abstract: A multi-wide area network (WAN) incorporating both satellite-based communication networks and cellular networks (e.g., an LTE network) is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Fotheringham, Tom Freeman, Benjamin Posthuma
  • Patent number: 11818760
    Abstract: A wireless communication device, system and method. The device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry includes logic to: determine a training field length associated with a directional multigigabit (DMG) CTS frame of another wireless communication device; determine a Clear-To-Send time (CTS_Time) parameter based at least in part on the training field length; determine a transmit opportunity (TXOP) continuation timeout for the device based on the CTS_Time parameter; and set a network allocation vector (NA V) for the device based on the TXOP continuation timeout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Solomon Trainin, Carlos Cordeiro, Laurent Cariou, Ou Yang, Assaf Kasher
  • Patent number: 11774550
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus which use a first automatic gain control unit to receive a first data signal, use a second automatic gain control unit to receive a reflected radar signal, and switches between using the first automatic gain control unit and using the second automatic gain control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Volker Braun, Shahriar Shahramian, Harish Viswanathan, Thorsten Wild
  • Patent number: 11743001
    Abstract: Indexing-based feedback codes and methods of use are disclosed herein. An example method includes determining error correction for a received packet having errors, generating an index of the error correction, the index including error positions for the errors in the received packet, and transmitting the index to a decoder receiver. The receiver using the index to correct the errors in the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Aira Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yihan Jiang, Ravikiran Gopalan, Amaael Antonini, Anand Chandrasekher
  • Patent number: 11705953
    Abstract: A first wireless device may select a first beam for communication with a second wireless device from a first set of beams associated with a first beam level. A second set of beams may be associated with a second beam level. The first beam may be associated with a first children list. The first children list may be associated with a first subset of beams of the second set of beams. Each beam in the first subset of beams may have an envelope area that intersects an envelope area of the first beam. The first wireless device may select a second beam for communication with the second wireless device from the first subset of beams based on an envelope area of the second beam intersecting the envelope area of the first beam. The first wireless device may communicate with the second wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ting Kong, Farhad Meshkati, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11683081
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a method for allocating resources to a plurality of users by a base station in a communication network. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of parameters associated with each of the plurality of users. The plurality of parameters is at least one of a buffer occupancy, a channel quality, and a channel state information acquisition capability. Also, the method comprises segregating the users into a plurality of groups using at least one of the plurality of parameters, wherein each group comprises one or more users. Further, the method comprises obtaining a group specific metric for each of the plurality of groups using at least one of the plurality of parameters, and allocating resources to the one or more users of the plurality of groups using the group specific metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: Kiran Kumar Kuchi, Saidhiraj Amuru, Harish Kumar Dureppagari, Pavan Kumar Reddy Manne
  • Patent number: 11652542
    Abstract: The invention relates to inserting reference signals in a radio signal to be transmitted over a wireless communication system, the radio signal being emitted according to a specific SS-STBC scheme, the method comprising, inserting the reference signals to transmit them in the radio signal such as samples of these reference signals are in specific positions in the SS-STBC symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Cristina Ciochina, Arnaud Bouttier, Jean-Christophe Sibel
  • Patent number: 11601158
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a remote antenna unit includes a transmitter, a receiver, an antenna array, and first and second interference circuits. The transmitter is configured to generate at least one transmit signal, and the receiver is configured to process at least one receive signal. The antenna array includes one or more antennas, each of at least one of the one or more antennas coupled to the transmitter and configured to radiate a respective downlink signal in response to a respective one of the at least one transmit signal, and each of at least one of the one or more antennas coupled to the receiver and configured to generate a respective one of the at least one receive signal in response to an uplink signal. And the first and second interference circuits are each coupled to the transmitter and to the receiver and are each configured to reduce interference in each of the at least one receive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Philip M. Wala, Alfons Dussmann, Thomas Kummetz, Massimiliano Mini, Dean Zavadsky
  • Patent number: 11582075
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention facilitate secure communication by altering the set of symbol waveforms that may be in use in particular symbol times defined herein as Symbol Waveform Hopping. SWH may be enabled by selecting two or more modulation formats that have sufficiently comparable communication performance (e.g., occupied bandwidth and signal power efficiency), but characterized by symbol waveform alphabet that include different symbol waveform, so that the overall transmission/communication performance of data stream in a signal transmission channel of the system is not significantly affected by switching between modulation formats. Some or all of the symbol waveforms in each alphabet may not be present in other alphabets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Astrapi Corporation
    Inventor: Jerrold Prothero
  • Patent number: 11582715
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) feedback operations for multicast communications are provided. A first user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station (BS), a multicast feedback configuration indicating a first resource configuration for a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) feedback mode; and a second resource configuration for an acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) feedback mode. The first UE receives, from the BS, a first multicast communication. The first UE transmits, to the BS, a NACK feedback for the first multicast communication based on the first resource configuration. The first UE receives, from the BS, a second multicast communication. The first UE transmits, to the BS, an ACK feedback or a NACK feedback for the second multicast communication based on the second resource configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Peter Gaal, Ayan Sengupta, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Kazuki Takeda, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Wanshi Chen, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Umesh Phuyal, Xipeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11533099
    Abstract: A method of selecting a reception resource of a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, with the UE, multiple predetermined signals from a base station (BS) using multiple reception resources, measuring, with the UE, reception quality of the predetermined signals, and selecting, with the UE, at reception resource used for reception of a downlink signal from the multiple reception resources based on the measured reception quality. The method further includes receiving, with the UE, the downlink signal using the selected reception resource. The selecting selects the reception resource used for reception of the predetermined signal of which reception quality is higher than reception quality of the other predetermined signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Chongning Na, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11470577
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described herein for paging procedures in wireless systems. For example, a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may monitor one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) for paging resources associated with a first subset of synchronization signal (SS) blocks that corresponds to a first beam tracking area (BTA). On a condition that at least one measurement of at least one beam associated with the first subset of SS blocks is less than a predetermined threshold, the WTRU may transmit, to a base station (BS), a signal indicating a second BTA that is associated with a second subset of SS blocks. The signal includes a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource associated with a second group of SS blocks that corresponds to the second BTA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz
  • Patent number: 11452174
    Abstract: A signal processing method and a related device, where the signal processing method may be applicable to the field of signal transmission between a baseband processing apparatus and a radio frequency apparatus of an access network device. The baseband processing apparatus obtains at least two first downlink digital baseband signals, multiplexes the at least two first downlink digital baseband signals into one second downlink digital baseband signal, and after converting the second downlink digital baseband signal into a first downlink analog baseband signal, sends the first downlink analog baseband signal to the radio frequency apparatus. The radio frequency apparatus demultiplexes the first downlink analog baseband signal, and generates, based on at least two second downlink analog baseband signals obtained by demultiplexing, a downlink radio frequency signal to be sent to a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11411778
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a time-division duplex (TDD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that includes a plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes collectively includes antennas divided into groups. Reference signals can be transmitted from each group of antennas to one or more other groups of antennas during respective time slots. Channel estimates can be generated based on the received reference signals. The channel estimates can be jointly processed to generate calibration coefficients. Each calibration coefficient can represent a ratio associated with a transmit coefficient and a receive coefficient. Example algorithms for the joint processing are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: XCOM Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinghu Chen, Wanlun Zhao, Tamer Adel Kadous, Peter John Black, Michael Mingxi Fan
  • Patent number: 11356150
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a cellular communication network having a base station serving a radio cell and at least one user equipment located within the radio cell, wherein the base station is configured to receive a radio signal from the user equipment and to determine at least one signal property of the received radio signal, wherein the base station is further configured to assign a user equipment identifier to the user equipment based on the a least one determined signal property. The present invention further concerns a base station to be used in the above mentioned cellular network as well as corresponding methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kasparick, Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante, Dennis Wieruch, Josef Bernhard, Gerd Kilian, Benjamin Sackenreuter, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Fehrenbach
  • Patent number: 11337249
    Abstract: A wireless communication device, system and method. The device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry includes logic to: determine a training field length associated with a directional multigigabit (DMG) CTS frame of another wireless communication device; determine a Clear-To-Send time (CTS_Time) parameter based at least in part on the training field length; determine a transmit opportunity (TXOP) continuation timeout for the device based on the CTS_Time parameter; and set a network allocation vector (NAV) for the device based on the TXOP continuation timeout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Solomon Trainin, Carlos Cordeiro, Laurent Cariou, Ou Yang, Assaf Kasher
  • Patent number: 11323159
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements are described for Multi User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) signaling via Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas between a base station and one of a plurality of mobile terminals supporting both Single User and Multi User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO) signaling modes. Switching between the modes is supported, and the modes have partly shared signaling. SU-MIMO mode signaling which is not needed for MU-MIMO mode signaling is identified. Data bits of the identified signaling is interpreted to comprise signaling information associated with MU-MIMO mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventors: George Jöngren, Bo Göransson, Lei Wan
  • Patent number: 11246066
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for updating a sequence hopping (SH) pattern of an uplink channel during handover from a current cell having a current SH pattern. At least one downlink channel of each neighbor cell of the current cell is monitored. Information indicative of the monitored downlink channels of the neighbor cells is transmitted to the current cell. Prior to receiving a handover command from the current cell a target cell from among the neighbor cells is anticipated and a common downlink channel of the anticipated target cell is monitored to determine information representative of a target SH pattern of the target cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings
    Inventors: Jin Wang, Joseph S. Levy, Stephen E. Terry, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez
  • Patent number: 11219030
    Abstract: To provide a mechanism capable of improving the efficiency of communications without disturbing other communications, presented herein is a wireless communication device having a reception circuitry that receives a signal and a transmission circuitry that transmits a signal on a basis of a first threshold value set in association with a second threshold value. The first threshold value includes a detection level related to an electric wave in the wireless communication device, and the second threshold value includes a reception determination level of a signal detected by the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Yuichi Morioka, Takeshi Itagaki
  • Patent number: 11212788
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication including a base station transmitting a preamble including information indicating a sector identifier and an antenna port value. The base station further transmits a pilot sequence, wherein the pilot sequence and the location of the pilot sequence are based on the sector identifier and on the antenna port value. A base station configured to perform the method is also disclosed. A corresponding subscriber station configured to receive the preamble and pilot sequence is also disclosed, as well as a subscriber station method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: WI-LAN INC.
    Inventors: Gene Marsh, Srikanth Gummadi, William Burchill, Michael Wengler
  • Patent number: 11206599
    Abstract: There is provided a main unit and a distributed antenna system including the same. The main unit for constituting a distributed antenna system that receives a base station signal from at least one base station, transmits the base station signal to at least one user terminal, and includes a plurality of main units, the main unit includes: a first receiver for receiving a first group of base station signals; a second receiver for receiving a second group of base station signals from another main unit; a signal combiner for combining the first and second groups of base station signals; and a delay compensator for compensating for time delay corresponding to a path between the main unit and the other main unit with respect to the first group of base station signals before combining the first and second groups of base station signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Do Yoon Kim, Hyoung Ho Kim, Kwang Nam Seo
  • Patent number: 11190448
    Abstract: A network device transmits data to a user equipment (UE) via a first Radio Access Network (RAN) using first Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) congestion control parameters. The network device receives a notification message indicating that the UE has moved from the first RAN to a second RAN, and modifies, responsive to receipt of the notification, the first TCP congestion control parameters to create second TCP congestion control parameters. The network device transmits data to the UE via the second RAN using the second TCP congestion control parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Mindler, Hugo David Munoz Sanchez, Maria Cel Halili Zaballero, Daniel Osorio, Xihong Wang, Lixia Yan
  • Patent number: 11184950
    Abstract: A system and method for incorporating co-site interference impact in dynamic spectrum access for heterogeneous hierarchical networks where preprocessing is used to create lookup tables for the different types of co-site interference. The lookup tables reflect the weight of the spectral leakage lobes for all signals internal and external to the system under different conditions. Lookup tables can be used at any hierarchical entity that offer dynamic spectrum access services in a cloud services construct. Co-site interference impact becomes its own set of dynamic spectrum access services that can be added to a dynamic spectrum access capable system without impacting the other dynamic spectrum access computations needs such as computation that produce spatial separation. Co-site interference becomes a second order spatial separation that is abstracted in lookup tables and adaptable based on measured metrics such that different lookup tables can be used under different conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Elmasry, Thomas L. Tapp
  • Patent number: 11183758
    Abstract: An active electrically scanned array (AESA) antenna device is disclosed. In embodiments, the AESA antenna device includes a beam forming network including a plurality of analog beamformer (ABF) integrated circuit devices. The beam forming network may be configured to: receive a first set of signals and a second set of signals with multiple ABF integrated circuit devices, and combine the first set of signals and the second set of signals to generate a first receive input beam and a second receive input beam. In embodiments, the AESA antenna device further includes a carrier substrate communicatively coupled to the beam forming network. The carrier substrate may be configured to receive the first receive output beam with a first electrical line and the second receive output beam with a second electrical line, and route the first electrical line and the second electrical line within a first manifold layer of the carrier substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Pond, Lee M. Paulsen
  • Patent number: 11184906
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and processing nodes are configured to perform scheduling in a wireless network utilizing a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) operating mode, by determining that a throughput indicator of a sector meets a threshold, and adjusting a time window during which a first one or more wireless devices are removed from a MU-MIMO group and a second one or more wireless devices are added to the MU-MIMO group. The first one or more wireless devices comprise any wireless device that has a throughput below a threshold, and the second one or more wireless devices comprise any wireless device that has not been in the MU-MIMO group for a predefined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Justin Sungki Park, Saied Kazeminejad
  • Patent number: 11177982
    Abstract: A method for transmitting feedback includes generating explicit channel feedback for a plurality of transmit beam-receive beam combinations (TRBCs) between the user device and a transmit-receive point (TRP), generating a modified resource in accordance with explicit feedback configuration information, the modified resource configured to convey the explicit channel feedback, wherein an explicit channel feedback associated with each TRBC is conveyed on a different data symbol of the modified resource, and transmitting the modified resource to the TRP using a single TRBC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Bin Liu, Pengfei Xia, Nathan Edward Tenny, Hongcheng Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11166212
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for wireless communication are disclosed by the present disclosure. In an example, a user equipment (UE) may be located on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UE may monitor at least one of an elevation of the UE or a number of cells detected by the UE. The UE may determine that the elevation of the UE exceeds an elevation threshold or the number of cells detected by the UE exceeds a cell threshold. The UE may determine a current communication mode of the UE. The UE may switch to a directional transmit mode, in response to determining that the current communication mode is an omnidirectional transmit mode and at least one of the elevation of the UE exceeds the elevation threshold or the number of cells detected by the UE exceeds the cell threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Mridul Agarwal, Hargovind Prasad Bansal
  • Patent number: 11165480
    Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first reference signal sent by a network device; measuring, by the terminal device, a downlink channel based on the first reference signal, to obtain a channel status of the downlink channel; determining, by the terminal device, a target mode from a plurality of modes based on the channel status of the downlink channel, where information that is used to feed back channel state information (CSI) and that is sent by the terminal device in different modes of the plurality of modes is different; and sending, by the terminal device, indication information to the network device, where the indication information is used to indicate the target mode. The data transmission method and apparatus in the embodiments of this application are conducive to improve flexibility of feeding back CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huangping Jin, Xiaoyan Bi, Min Zhang, Wei Han
  • Patent number: 11153003
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for generating cell-specific signals using an antenna array with dual-polarized antenna elements. A method is performed by a network device. The method comprises obtaining antenna weights for two sector-specific signals, each sector-specific signal giving rise to a respective sector-specific radiation pattern. The method comprises generating a first cell-specific signal, the first cell-specific signal giving rise to a first cell-specific radiation pattern, wherein antenna weights for the first cell-specific signal are determined such that the radiation pattern matches both sector-specific radiation patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, David Astely, Niklas Jaldén
  • Patent number: 11114751
    Abstract: In aspects of a small cell installation structure, a carbon fiber skeleton provides stability and an attachable framework to mount wireless technology equipment. A formable foam material, such as a polyurethane material, is configured as a formable aesthetic housing around the carbon fiber skeleton, and a hardened polymer coating over the formable foam material is adapted to a shape of the formable aesthetic housing. The hardened polymer coating resists environmental conditions that may otherwise hamper performance of the wireless technology equipment. Additionally, an antenna housing module encloses antennas of the wireless technology equipment, is integrated with the carbon fiber skeleton, and is designed to pass millimeter wave (mmW) spectrum wireless signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: EasyStreet Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Joseph Chase, Kent Alton Harrison
  • Patent number: 11115240
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for performing analog CSI feedback in a user equipment, comprising: a. obtaining an analog CSI matrix corresponding to the user equipment, the analog CSI matrix satisfies a condition below: X XH=D, where X denotes the analog CSI matrix, H denotes conjugate transpose of matrix, and D denotes a diagonal matrix; b. obtaining dominated element information corresponding to the analog CSI matrix according to predetermined index information, and transmitting the dominated element information to a base station. The solution according to the present disclosure can reduce feedback overheads to a greater extent, has a high CSI feedback quality, and can reliably implement CSI recovery at the base station side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Qingchuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11079465
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for estimating a signal source, the method including receiving, in at least one receiving node, a signal emitted from a signal source, extracting a steering matrix corresponding to a virtual antenna array by vectorizing the signal received in the at least one receiving node, and estimating a location of the signal source based on the steering matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Jung-Bin Kim
  • Patent number: 11030883
    Abstract: A system for alerting emergency contacts includes a data collecting computer comprising a processor and software. The processor is configured to connect to a communication system; submit data to a contact; and receive data from mobile devices. The mobile devices transmit data. If the data collecting computer receives distress data from the mobile device, the data collecting computer communicates to a first communication device. The processor is configured to communicate, via the communication system, to a first communication device; and submit data to the first communication device. The processor is configured to capture images of an officer by utilizing artificial intelligence when prompted by the user. The artificial intelligence uses facial recognition to recognize face of the officer. The processor is configured to determine speed, distance and location of a vehicle for a report purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Inventor: Maria Watkins
  • Patent number: 11026186
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a control node may determine, for a target wireless node in communication with a plurality of other wireless nodes via a plurality of links of a network, a plurality of powers for the plurality of links, wherein the plurality of powers are selected to control inter-link interference or to satisfy a maximum power criterion. The control node may cause at least one of the target wireless node or the plurality of other wireless nodes to use the plurality of powers for concurrent transmissions to the target wireless node using the plurality of links based at least in part on determining the plurality of powers. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11005507
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, in a multi-user detection (MUD) receiver, a method for identifying a beam which produces a specific signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) can include: determining a maximum output SINR; determining beam weights to achieve a target SINR using the determined maximum output SINR; applying the beam weights to one or more received signals to generate a beamformed signal having the target SINR, one or more of the received signals having a signal of interest (SOI), one or more interfering signals, and noise; and providing the beamformed signal to a multi-user detection unit to recover the SOI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Michael Dowling
  • Patent number: 10997488
    Abstract: A product tagging system is provided. The product tagging system includes at least one RF backscatter transmitter configured to emit a Radio Frequency (RF) signal on a frequency. The product tagging system further includes a plurality of passive RF backscatter tags, each associated with a respective product and configured to reflect and frequency shift the RF signal to a respective different frequency. The product tagging system also includes at least one RF backscatter receiver configured to read the respective product on the respective different frequency by detecting a distributed ambient backscatter signal generated by a reflection and frequency shifting of the RF signal by a corresponding one of the plurality of passive RF backscatter tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventor: Mohammad Khojastepour
  • Patent number: 10993122
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for a beam management procedure in a communications network. A method is performed by a first radio transceiver device. The method comprises transmitting, in at least one directional transmit beam, a reference signal to a second radio transceiver device as part of the beam management procedure. More than one occurrence of the reference signal is transmitted within one single OFDM symbol. One occurrence for each of two polarizations of the reference signal is transmitted in each of the at least one directional transmit beam within the one single OFDM symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Fredrik Athley
  • Patent number: 10979267
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a preamble in a wireless LAN system, and a station device for performing the same. To this end, a station for transmitting a preamble configures a wireless frame including a first type terminal frame portion, and a second type terminal frame portion. The first type terminal frame portion includes a first type terminal preamble including a first type terminal short training field (STF) and a first type terminal long training field (LTF), and the second type terminal frame portion includes a second type terminal preamble including a second type terminal SFT and a second type terminal LTF. Here, the station configures the second type terminal preamble by allocating sequence components at an interval of an integer number of tones in a frequency domain and transmits the configured wireless frame to another station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongguk Lim, Jinyoung Chun, Jinsoo Choi, Wookbong Lee, Hangyu Cho, Eunsung Park
  • Patent number: 10958403
    Abstract: A wireless communication base station apparatus which is able to prevent deterioration in the throughput of LTE terminals even when LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals coexist. In this apparatus, based on the mapping pattern of the reference signals used only in LTE+ terminals, a setting unit sets, in each subframe, the resource block groups where the reference signals used only by the LTE+ terminals are mapped. For symbols mapped to the antennas, an mapping unit maps, to all the resource blocks within one frame, cell specific reference signals used for both LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals. For the symbols mapped to the antennas, the mapping unit maps, to the plurality of resource blocks, of which part of the resource block groups is comprised, in the same subframe within one frame, the cell specific reference signals used only for LTE+ terminals, based on the setting results inputted from the setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 10951072
    Abstract: A wireless power transmitter having a plurality of transmission coils is disclosed. The present transmitter comprises: first to Nth coils; and a control unit for transmitting, to a wireless power receiver, a first sensing signal through the first to Nth coils, and adjusting transmission orders of the first to Nth coils for transmitting a second sensing signal, on the basis of the signal strength of a received first signal strength indicator when the first signal strength indicator corresponding to the first sensing signal is received, wherein the control unit can transmit, to the receiver, the second sensing signal through the first to Nth coils on the basis of the adjusted transmission orders. Therefore, device efficiency and user convenience can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Young Jo, Jong Heon Lee, Yong Suk Chae
  • Patent number: 10952200
    Abstract: The present application relates to an indication method for transmitting a physical control channel. The method includes: determining, by a radio node, one of space frequency block coding SFBC transmission and single frequency transmission, as a receiving mode used by user equipment to receive a downlink physical control channel; and sending, by the radio node, an indication message to the user equipment, where the indication message is used to instruct the user equipment to receive, in the receiving mode, the downlink physical control channel sent by the radio node. The user equipment receives the downlink physical control channel according to the receiving mode, thereby improving system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haibao Ren, Yi Huang, Yuanjie Li, Zheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10937443
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for data driven radio enhancement. For example, methods may include demodulating a radio signal to obtain a demodulated audio signal; determining a window of audio samples based on the demodulated audio signal; applying an audio enhancement network to the window of audio samples to obtain an enhanced audio segment, in which the audio enhancement network includes a machine learning network that has been trained using demodulated audio signals derived from radio signals; and storing, playing, or transmitting an enhanced audio signal based on the enhanced audio segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: BabbleLabs LLC
    Inventors: Samer Hijazi, Kamil Krzysztof Wojcicki, Dror Maydan, Christopher Rowen
  • Patent number: 10916844
    Abstract: Multi-directional antenna apparatuses, which may include phased array antennas and/or arrays of multiple antennas, and methods for operating these directional antennas. In particular, described herein are apparatuses configured to operate as an access point (AP) for communicating with one or more station devices by assigning a particular directional beam to each access point, and communicating with each station device using the assigned directional beam at least part of the time. Methods and apparatuses configured to optimize the assignment of one or more directional beam and for communicating between different station devices using assigned directional beams are described. Also described are methods of connecting a radio device to an antenna by connecting a USB connector on the radio device to a USB connector on an antenna and identifying the antenna based on a voltage of the ground pin on the antenna's USB connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Ubiquiti Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Sanford, Sriram Dayanandan, Vish Ponnampalam, Gonzalo P. Jabbaz, Robert J. Pera
  • Patent number: 10904059
    Abstract: A method for communication includes generating a control channel comprising a first symbol and a second symbol, the first symbol comprising a first symbol half and a second symbol half, the first symbol half of the first symbol comprising information relating to automatic gain control (AGC) training, the second symbol half of the first symbol comprising a cyclic shifted copy of a request symbol corresponding to a length of a transmission, and the second symbol comprising control content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Shailesh Patil
  • Patent number: 10873652
    Abstract: In a method of generating a field of a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a data unit, information bits to be included in the field are generated. Respective sets of tail bits are appended after respective sets of information bits corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of groups of subfields of the field, each group including one or more of the subfields of the field, to generate an encoder input bit stream. One or more padding bits are added to the encoder input stream to generate a padded encoder input bit stream, the one or more padding bits to ensure an integer number of puncturing blocks in an encoded output bit stream. The padded encoder input bit stream is encoded to generate the encoded output bit stream. The field is generated to include at least some bits from the encoded output bit stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10848220
    Abstract: It is provided a method for compressing beamspace coefficients to be applied when transferring data between a radio network node and a specific user device, the method being performed in a coefficient encoder and comprising the steps of: obtaining beamspace coefficients, wherein each beamspace coefficient comprises a complex value and a direction; determining at least one cluster based on proximity, in a complex plane, of the complex values of the beamspace coefficients; determining, for each beamspace coefficient, a cluster to which it belongs; determining a representative complex value for each one of the at least one cluster; outputting the representative complex values for each cluster; and outputting, for each beamspace coefficient, an identity of the cluster to which the beamspace coefficient belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andre Mendes Cavalcante, Igor Almeida, Eduardo Lins De Medeiros, Keke Zu, Miguel Berg
  • Patent number: 10827506
    Abstract: A base station may configure an access beam group to include one or more antenna beams for communicating with one or more user equipment (UE). The base station may configure a backhaul beam group to include one or more antenna beams for communicating with one or more other base stations. The base station may monitor network traffic associated with the access beam group and/or the backhaul beam group, and may determine that the network traffic satisfies a condition. The base station may modify the access beam group and/or the backhaul beam group to add or remove at least one antenna beam based on determining that the network traffic satisfies the condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Yuexin Dong, Arda Aksu, Sanyogita Shamsunder, Imtiyaz Shaikh